Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Evelyn Knight's first big-time broadcast (with Paul Whiteman), her singing teacher wired: "YOU NEED ME," After her second broadcast, he wired: "YOU HAVE NO MORE VOICE THAN A GOAT AND A MOUTHFUL OF CONSONANTS...
...David Knight '50 has been named captain for next season, replacing Gerstley. James Beverly '47 will serve as manager. Other lettermen on the squad are Neal Small '45, Royal A. Elfast '50, and Nathaniel C. Nash...
...copy desk-Miss Sulzberger gave up for the night. Next morning she asked our Washington office where they had found the verse to include in their research. Washington replied that it had been enclosed in a letter to a Congressman from a constituent in Spokane. His name was Jack Knight, and they gave his telephone number...
Soon Mrs. Knight was on the phone, wanting to know why New York wanted to talk to her husband, who had gone to his job at the Bell Furniture Co. The Bell store manager wanted to know the same thing before summoning Knight. After satisfying Knight's curiosity as to how TIME happened to hear of him, he announced that the Stoddard King verse was in his scrapbook at home. He thought he had clipped it originally from the Spokane Daily Chronicle...
...promised to do his best. Early Monday night he called back on a three-way hookup so that Spokesman-Review Editor Glendinning, who was on hand, could talk, too. Yes, they had found the printed verse and it was King's, all right. They had persuaded Jack Knight to get his scrapbook and bring it to the Chronicle office. The clipping was carefully removed and the reverse side showed that it was from the Spokesman-Review on a March 6th. It turned out to be March 6, 1933, three months before Stoddard King died...